Grrl Power #318 – Now she looks… human!
The “officially because the materials weren’t ready” line is my oh so clever way of covering my own butt for not having designed these outfits earlier. I originally had planned to have the team in variants of Maxima’s green outfit with the leather trim, but the more I thought about it, the more I wanted them looking more like actual soldiers, so I’ll have to come up with a reason they have the green and brown outfits. I think it was a paramilitary outfit that Maxima liked to wear that got slowly adapted into the teams outfits until the Q-vex stuff was ready. Or maybe those are their casual patrolling outfits, whereas the one Sydney’s in now would be what they put on under their vests and tactical gear when they’re going door kicking.
The pattern on her outfit is based on the “Scorpion W2” pattern that will be replacing the digital one we’ve come to know over the last decade or so. Apparently the digital one has some issues in certain environments. It’s too bad because it looks nice and distinctive, whereas the Scorpion W2 kind of just looks like the old green and brown forest cameo with slightly different squiggles on it. Of course “looking neat” isn’t the point of camo at all. Except in the case of Arc-SWAT it kind of is. They’re military, yes, but they’re not going to be hiding in bushes waiting to ambush patrolling supervillians. (Ok, Peggy might.) They’re cops, and they’re supposed to be noticed, but they’re also supposed to look military. This outfit was the compromise they came up with.
On an almost completely unrelated note: Did you know “The Old Man” from Robocop also played Grigg in The Last Starfighter? I was surprised when I learned that but now I can’t not hear it.
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THE CHAIR! The invisible woman totally distracts from the invisible chair he is sitting on!
i thought that looked odd
Ashley: “What chair?” *He looks confused, waving a hand under himself*
*Shhhhh* Only people who read page one of the comments may know the truth.
;)
What truth? That he’s sitting on his pants?
He controls fabrics. So yes
Yeah, he could totally fly around everywhere by merely TK’ing his clothes…Or slam someone else against walls the same way, if he were so inclined.
Most interesting tailor in the world: “I don’t always fly around, but when I do, I fly by the seat of my pants.”
Can Arianna issue a restraining order against the media for thier ambushing of Sydney at her residence and place of business?
Not a chance in hell. U.S. press freedom is pretty damned expansive. They can be kept off of private property, and Sydney was within her rights to say, “You have to be a customer to be in the shop,” but so long as it’s a public location (such as a sidewalk/street), the press can be there.
The local cops might be willing to set up a cordon outside her home, just to ensure a footpath and traffic route that isn’t blocked; but those are still expected to be as minimal as possible.
Arianna here references the big gun she has–‘access’. If you’ve ever watched a Presidential press briefing, most of the reporters present are polite to the point of being subservient; a President has to be on the ropes from outside sources before the White House Press Corps comes after them in the press room. And ‘access’ is the reason for that. Step out of line, and you not only aren’t included in the WH press corps, you’re also persona non gratis with anyone else in town. Sources forget your number; leaks go to a rival news organization, and you’re pretty much through.
ARCHON is the hot new girl at the ball, and every major news org is going to want a slot on the press junket dance ticket. So a few well-placed calls will get Sydney some peace from the maddening crowd. However, she’ll still have to deal with papparazzi (and I can guarantee you that there’s already a 6-figure bounty on the first photographer to get a nude pic of any of the ARCHON women, because the world is a shitty, shitty place sometimes).
Sydney walks into the office of the Weekly World Tattler.
Sydney: “I’m here to collect the reward.”
Secretary: “What reward?”
Sydney: “The hundred grand for a nude shot of me.” (slides photo across desk)
Secretary: “This is you?”
Sydney: “Yeah.”
Secretary: “This is a two month old baby having a bath.”
Sydney: “You never mentioned anything about an age limit. Pay up.”
So a restraining order is both out of the question and a bad idea anyway?
heehee, that image just made my day.
This needs somebody to draw out and pass over to Dave as an emergency filler fan-comic!
+1
Innovative idea & Sydney would probably be the first comic character to think of it & actually try it.
Cleverly done.
+1
:::cracks up:::: Yeah, I can see Sydney doing that.
I would SO love to see this happen to all the paparazzi consuming rags out there.
“…so long as it’s a public location (such as a sidewalk/street), the press can be there….”
AND so long as they don’t obstruct vehicle or pedestrian traffic or disturb the public peace.
Well, frankly, Sydney’s more likely to disturb the peace than the press gangs. Hopefully she just remembers not to use the PPO… Or, knowing her, the Tento… Lighthook.
That depends entirely on what they’re reporting on. This may sound tinfoil-hatty, but so long as it follows the current memes. Not bothering to report on a story where someone saved their family with a gun when the theme is “guns are bad” for example (several examples of that one). Or say if evidence comes to light that some domestic terror attack was really a false flag attack, the news won’t say squat and any reporter who gets too insistent on running whatever the story is is likely to be fired (Amber Lyon).
It is formalised in the UK. There is a special provision under law where the press can be barred from reporting certain things. Or where they can be required to print an ‘authorised version’ only. Typically only invoked in wartime.
But the press do not whine about that too much. Britain knows how valuable disinformation can be in during war, so the press do not rock the boat. Especially as they can, after the event, show how patriotic they were.
Note those articles can be invoked purely by politicians. So it is separate to the normal situation, where a court can order that reporting on certain trials (or other stories) be restricted or totally prohibited.
Air tank seems to have kind of a problem. If air cannot pass through her shield, then as she breaths, the air pressure inside the shield would gradually increase as the air goes from being compressed within the tank to just floating around within the shield. That could then lead to rapid decompression of varying severity depending on how much pressure has built up before Sydney drops her shield.
I would assume that they’d give her something like a CO2 scrubber instead of an air tank, as that would allow her to avoid that problem, and avoid offering an obvious target for incoming fire (anything in a pressurized tank is something that people don’t want getting out). THis does raise an interesting question, though–can Sydney use this for something like scuba-diving, and if so, how do the air pressure problems affect her?
Downside to closed systems is if/when they break, you’re more likely to poison yourself. So thought’s going to have to go into whatever rebreather they give her.
Yea, a dual system is always best, when your life is at stake. Having bottled air to fall back on, even if it is only a few minutes worth, can give you the time to fix the scrubber, or otherwise get to safety.
the shield comes with pressure regulation, remember her asking why don’t her ears pop when she makes it bigger or smaller
In order to have pressure regulation, the shield must admit air while expanding and release air while contracting – or create and destroy it, which results in the same effect. Either that, or it could hold the air in proximity to the user in some way while expanding, creating a vacuum in the new space, and when contracting perhaps compress air close to the shield wall while maintaining a volume of air at normal pressure around the user. Ergo, in the first case one can refresh the air by expanding the shield and then contracting it. Alternately, in the second case one could start the shield big and then contract it, creating a larger volume of air to draw upon.
Good catch, maybe she could make her shield breathe like a giant lung by expanding and contracting it.
A lot of laws of physics seem to not work when the shield is up.
Air pressure differentials doesnt work (Sydney’s commented on that when she asked why her ears don’t pop when the shield goes from large to small)
Inertia doesnt seem to work (as well as not affecting the outside of the shield either – which is why not only does Maxima or Vehemence punching the shield not get through – it also doesnt send the entire shield flying – I doubt it can even be lifted or moved at all)
Sound and light pass through, but only at levels that are tolerable and comfortable enough to the person or people inside.
Quantum formality can exist within the shield, but stuff which normally can violate the Heisenberg uncertainty principle cannot pass through (which is why Harem can’t teleport through, but it doesnt mess up her single-brain/multi-body cohesiveness with her other bodies)
There’s probably a lot more, and more might be added with future upgrades. For all we know, the shield can be upgraded to allow benign gaseous states in (like O2), or allow CO2 to be scrubbed into O2 and have the Carbon filtered out, or have the carbon be used be converted to energy to power continued CO2 scrubbing. Seems the main purpose of the shield is to protect those inside, and whoever or whatever made the orbs probably understood that concept.
It’s just a comic, y’all should really just relax
Nonsense! Over-analysis is how we have fun!!!
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Heh. Very good point. The analysis of the comic starts in-setting on page 1. We really do have the ultimate justification just from that alone.
Normally i would yell out a defiant Never!!!! And then give an hour long lecture on comic book physics. And explain how this webcomic is geared to people who like to overanalyze stuff like that to subvert tropes.
But right now im too excited after seeing the trailer for the supergirl tv show coming out in 2015. Awesomesauce.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm46-envrHo
I love this so much
Is good will have to record it so I can watch it.
Interesting. Twenty thousand dislikes. Versus sixty thousand likes. That abnormality alone made me want to watch it all the way through.
And what a nice surprise. I thought it was only a trailer, rather than a complete movie. Quite enjoyable. Doubt I would pay to watch the slightly expanded version, in the cinema. But for a freebie, I certainly did not feel the urge to click the thumbs down.
There were some very good moments in that too. And was her boss Ally McBeal? If so, no wonder you are so hyped to see it Pander!
(Pander = Ally McBeal in my mind’s eye)
*Clicks thumbs up*
Bad Tsuki_Ouji! You posted no TVTropes warning for that link.
Muahahaha…. My plan is working…..
Also, I didn’t post it with the intention of “stop over-analysing”, it was more of a “Graham Chapman is about to pop up saying ‘Too silly!'” thing.
:-)
“Seems the main purpose of the shield is to protect those inside, and whoever or whatever made the orbs probably understood that concept.”
The orbs seem uncannily Green Lantern-y in that regard. Would be funny if a bunch of space cops dragged Halo off to the “Delta Quadrant” to be tried for unlicensed operation of Space Police hardware…
She is a duly deputised representative of the official police in the relevant jurisdiction. So, if they have a fair system, she should be acquitted of any wrongdoing. And, if not, she can escape, using tongue-fu, and then turn their powers against them!
If they are uninsightful enough not to realise she is one of the good guys, then they are probably just as lacking when it comes to making optimal use of the tools at their disposal. Halo can give them a masterclass in Orb-fu.
Litium hydrocide canisters might be a beter solution. Converts CO2 to O2 and captures the carbon.
Used in space craft to prevent CO2 posioning in a closed enviroment.
You’d need a small battery for air flow (a fan for example).
Sounds like a design job for Dabbler. With her tech base she could probably arrange for the system to
produce power from the chemical reaction to power the fan and perhaps other things as well.
Charles.
Nah, ARCSparq could handle it. Why go to Dabbler to make something that’s doable with modern day Earth-indigenous technology? Dabbler doesn’t share her tech with anyone else anyway.
Actually, given that ARCHON is DOD, the uniform Sydney is wearing right now is probably going to be her standard uniform. There are some very thorny legal issues with having the military handling standard law enforcement activities in domestic situations, not least of which is that the military operates under a different code of law from the rest of the country, and military personnel do not have all of the same rights that civilians do (but they get to play with tanks, so it’s all good). In all likelihood, ARC-SWAT is probably exactly what the name implies: a super-power SWAT team, that functions something like a reverse Coast Guard, in that it’s military, so its members can’t do the whole patrol thing, but it can be called up by law enforcement when supervillians get…tetchy, shall we say? Most law enforcement duties, like going on patrol, would still be handled by regular law enforcement, who are sufficiently numerous to actually do that job and have a hope in hell of having an impact on actual crime rates. When supervillians show up, the local LEOs would still be the first responders, but they would probably simply hang back and observe–try to get an idea of where the bad guy is going, and what he or she plans to do when they get there, and just wait for the big guns, which may or may not involve actual large guns (thank you Peggy). ARC-SWAT would probably prefer to strike from ambush whenever possible, as it would allow the bad guys the least opportunity for collateral damage. That said, I doubt they would get the chance very often, unless ARC-LIGHT is a lot bigger than currently seems to be the case.
Given the expected sparsity of ambush scenarios, I would suspect a large part of the reason why they would wear camo uniforms is to make it clear that these guys are not here to serve warrants (even no-knock warrants), or to conduct routine arrests or investigations. ARCHON is not a civil police agency. It is a essentially part of the military–Sydney is effectively a reservist–and it exists to pick fights with people who are not notably hindered by conventional bullets. I can easily see scenarios where Sydney might be asked to deploy with active military forces, in which case having standard BDUs would help to improve the survivability of the entire unit, not just Sydney herself.
As for the the green-and-brown uniform Max wears when she’s not expecting combat? Easy. It’s the ARCHON dress uniform (which Max would call her “Class A’s”), which is worn for formal occasions so as to be impressive as hell without having to demolish half the local countryside. These events would be something like “Meet the press” situations, as well as when a new member is interviewed/inducted, an existing member retires/is promoted/meets with a representative of a foreign power or super team in an official capacity, and all the various situations where everybody has to be on their best behavior. It is likely nowhere near as durable, and significantly more visible than normal BDUs, but it would still be quite tough.
I agree with you in some regards, but not in others. Notably I do not think that Sydney, or any of the team, are ‘reservists’. Albeit that she is just a recruit at the moment, Sydney is an active service gendarme. With powers of arrest and other law-enforcement rights and duties. She will even have a badge and the capability of abusing that power!
As a matter of practicality, regular police forces will indeed have to carry on functioning as normal. Including patrol duties. So yea, if they encounter a super-threat, which they are unable to deal with, they will have to call on Arc-SWAT. And will probably have to fall back to a safe observation range, and keep civilians out of harms way.
Mind you they will be behaving pretty much the same way they currently have to, with regular SWAT. Just with a lot more care, plus possibly running and screaming involved.
Possibly the protocol might be to call in the local SWAT team, regardless. Given that not all supers are top-tier combat capable types. So, even if the regular police cannot safely handle a villain, a full SWAT team, may still be able to do so. Especially useful if it is a distant city from Archon HQ.
Only when SWAT decide that it is too dangerous, do they then call in the Archon. So a fair proportion of their call-outs might be directly from mundane SWAT teams. With the remainder being from police chiefs, governors and others, who are high enough ranked, to bypass the standard protocols.
Arc-SWAT may get some patrol duties mind. Especially if a super-villain is operating in an area, but they are unable to catch them in the act. Not all their jobs need be heavy gun roles. For instance Arc-Light may be able to determine that there is an invisible thief operating in an area. But lack the means of seeing them. Enter Halo, stage left.
One of the reasons why Halo is being equipped with a military styled uniform, is that in addition to policing, Arc-SWAT have been charged with protecting the country from external threats. So if there is an enemy invasion, by mundane or super troops, or a super terrorist threat against a US facility overseas, or a bunch of other scenarios, Sydney and the team will be heading off to fight.
No call-up or mobilisation of the reserves required. Although we can speculate as to the details, and the tactics (I agree with you about striking from ambush, in situations that call for it), there is no need to do so for their overall role and remit. That was all laid out in the press-conference.
They can modify cars to be proof against some very serious firepower. The down side of something like the”Beast”; the Presidents limosene is that yhe car has gained a LOT OF WEIGHT 100’s if notv 1,000+ pounds in weight. All that laminated glass and armor grade steel are heavy. And you must not forget the boosted engine and transmission to handle the added mass; the suspension to take the bumps and jolts; and of course you must not forget the multi-hour training course to learn how to handle that very heavy beast of a car.
yeah, you’re not only driving a vehicle that’s like 2x the length of a standard luxury car, but with an actual weight is closer to 4-5x
There isn’t a gamer alive that wouldn’t have considered bringing a bag of holding filled with air along after nearly suffocating themselves. Only natural that she would have considered an air tank. lol
Portable hole works better.
“Portable Hole” may have security-issues, if something besides air uses it to enter Syd’s safe-area.
I’m a little late to the party… but did anyone notice Harem’s cameo on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s season 2 finale besides me? ;-)
(Ok, so Harem’s self-cloning power isn’t all that original of an idea… but it was interesting to see the fight scenes.)
Saw it and loved it! Although the ‘Harem’ in that instance did not have all of the same powers as ours; good thing for SHIELD. But her being a redhead …shout out or coincidence? I’ll have to view it again to check for freckles.
Be sure to buy the DVD and check out the commentaries. Or listen to any interviews with the makers. Who knows, it may have been an intentional homage?
You know what? I LOVE the color gray ;-)
Well Duh.
“The pattern on her outfit is based on the “Scorpion W2″ pattern that will be replacing the digital one we’ve come to know over the last decade or so.”
Ya, this is something of a very sore point for a lot of people. They keep redesigning our uniforms with “newer” ones (costing millions), with crappier ones (old BDUs durable, would last well over a year, I still have mine and wear them hunting. “new” ACUs, tears within 3 months, and who the f*** thought velcro was a good idea.).
And do not get me started on the current F***ING PT UNIFORM INSANITY (yea, “cheaper”, crappier, wears out faster (offsetting the cheaper), and removed many of the reflectors that were on the good ones so less safe.)
We had a uniform last for 30+ years, then just over 20 years, now less than 10 years. Sorry for the rant, but I swear, it is just like watching Rome fall all over again with these stupid wastes of money.
I like the digi-cams, but apparently there are issues in certain environments and they weren’t tested as throroughly as they should have been. I think in reality, there’s no one pattern fits all until you get optical cameo of some kind. Constantly changing it up probably has more to do with congressional pork barreling than a real need, but I’m not the guy getting shot at. If I was, $100 million of tax payer money (or whatever it will cost to replace all existing uniforms) would probably be worth it to me.
Personally, I think the biggest issue is that people keep forgetting the original reason behind camo, which is simply breaking up your sight-picture to make your person-looking-body look less like a person in various environments.
I love my blueberries (Navy Working Uniform) for their color scheme, but they really aren’t the best uniform to give to people who work out in the ocean and have a decent chance of falling into the drink. It turns darker blue when wet which makes it harder to find you which in stormy waters blah-de-dah you get my point.
At the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter to me what kind of camo I end up with, so long as it does the ‘sight picture breaking’.
Sometimes camo uniforms have no value as camo and are there simply to make the wearer identifiable…
Aussie Navy uniforms(similar to blueberries) have no camo value, even have hi vis strips on it…
The point is the pattern is the same as Army/RAAF pattern, just different colours, it makes them identifiable as Aussie Defence
So wait… camo’s purpose isnt to make the wearer look cool?
Mind blown.
urban camo should look like candy wrapers, walmart bags, and street.
Sniper I knew said the only time he ever got shot at was wearing digi-cam. It looks cool, but apparently it stands out disturbingly well in night vision.
You know it just dawned on me, the clothes in the foreground being moved around aren’t in sight of Sydney but are in sight of Arianna. HE is making an ironic statement about Arianna’s “Song and Dance”. Its like rolling your eyes behind a cop while your friend says “Why no officer, I did not see the speed limit change. A school zone you say?”
I hope that Iron Cloth never turns evil. He has the ultimate in terrifying powers, at his disposal!
Mittens!
I never thought of that! Gad zooks!
Fabrikinesis? I can think of several ways that this power can be abused.
If you read through the comments up to this point, quite a few abuses have already been pointed out…
;)
Why is the chair invisible?
The chair is a lie.
There is no chair.
Ceci n’est pas une
pipechair.He controls fabrick. He literally sits on his clothes
Wait a minute, compressed air tank, slowly released within an impermeable membrane, should increase ambient pressure, which given that the volume won’t be changing will increase temperature, meaning the longer Sydney uses an air tank the faster she’ll be cooking herself.
She would be dead, from at least two other causes, long before she cooked herself through breathing. Likewise she would not be carrying enough food to provide the energy necessary for her spontaneous human combustion trick, even if the carbon dioxide, sheer air pressure and dehydration did not kill her first.
I disagree.
That would be true if the air were added from outside at ambient temperature (though I suspect it would be a fairly small effect). But the air is already inside the shield. Pressurised air released from the cylinder cools as it expands, which would more than offset the rise in temperature due to the rising pressure – there would be an overall cooling effect.
It’s my understanding that bullet proof is a very old term dating back to when metal armor was still the garment of choice for the battle field. It was back when firearms were basically still muskets and flintlock pistols. Armorers would make plate armor then fire a shot at it leaving a dent. That dent proved the armor was “bulletproof”, as in literally able to stop a bullet. Of course that was only true for whatever the best firearms at the time were. It was the arms race at the time with rifle makers trying to make rifles that could penetrate the best plate mail available and armorers trying to make plate mail that could withstand a shot from the best rifles that were available.
In the modern day the armor that would have been bullet proof then would likely only stop really low caliber rounds or hollow point now.
I wouldn’t even bet on hollow points. Smokeless powder is a lot of what really changed the game for modern firearms powerwise.
On an almost completely unrelated note: Did you know “The Old Man” from Robocop also played Grigg in The Last Starfighter? I was surprised when I learned that but now I can’t not hear it.
Yes, yes I did. “Gung ho Iguana.”
I think medic and heavy desagree with ashley ,”¡Im bulletproof!”
Negative. Bullet Resistant. Call it bulletproof all you want, but the moment the Ubercharge wears out… *BANG*
Wave Goodbye to your ‘ead Wanka!
I may be wrong, but it was my understanding that you build up a toxic amount of CO2 before you deplete the oxygen – so the bigger challenge is to “soak up” the CO2. I’m pretty sure NASA has some ideas how to handle that.
[/nitpick – just because science is fun, not meant as criticism] :)
Correct. But Sydney has already been in a fight long, and strenuous,* enough that she was showing signs of carbon dioxide poisoning. In that instance there was a lull in the danger long enough that she could lower the shield, for a few seconds, to refresh the air. That may not be an option in future.
Whilst you are correct that the carbon dioxide was the problem, rather than the lack of oxygen, she still had the problem of that being the only air available to breath. Whereas, if Halo recognises the symptoms in a future situation, she will have the option of taking a hit of oxygen from an uncontaminated source.
That alone will clear her head, and allow her to plan her next move. Not being able to do that was putting her at serious risk, in the car park battle. Had it not been for Maxima’s advice, her actions would have become increasingly erratic, and lethargic, until she passed out.
But even a small 10 minute supply, of clean air, can give her enough time to find either safety or a way to eliminate the danger, that is forcing her to keep the shield raised.
* Having come within a hairs-breadth of being killed, she was pumped full of adrenalin from the beginning. So will have been breathing heavily.
Maybe she’ll eventually learn to use a grid version of her shield… with air-holes… Good for stopping big things but letting small stuff through.
A workable possibility. And Halo has plenty of upgrade slots on the Forb. So you may have hit on one of them.
Two other possibilities come to mind, which Sidney as a sci-fi geek should know about:
1) Shield Cycling: the shield rapidly ‘strobes’ on and off to allow air through–this was used in an episode of ST:TNG when Chief O’Brien had to transport from the Enterprise to another Federation starship (USS Rutledge); he used the brief window when the two ship’s shields flickered off to allow sensor sweeps to penetrate.
2) Holtzman effect: from Frank Herbert’s Dune novels. Stops high-velocity projectiles (bullets, swords, cannon shells, etc.) but allows low-velocity/low kinetic energy objects (air molecules, body parts, etc. moving below the repulsion threshold) to pass through. [Think Gurney Halleck: “The slow blade penetrates the shield!”]
Either way would take a bit of effort to master (or so I would think), but either would solve the air exchange problem. Of course, since Halo’s shield is not Holtzman Effect-based, I bet she wouldn’t have any problem with lasers…
Reference is made to 2) in the final panel, on the next page. Albeit as regards the similarity to the armour, rather than in a force field context.
She does not. Probably. In the Battle at the Steak House Car Park™, we see an attack that looks very much like that, bouncing off her shield. Although to be fair, whilst it looked like a laser, it may have been something more exotic, like a particle beam. But the shield seems to be pretty broad spectrum defence, so it seems likely it will protect against lasers too, even if that turns out not to have been one.
I don’t think camo is the way to go. You want superheroes to be instantly recognizable when they show up. They should have individualized costumes. Full-coverage probably (not like traditional comics), but easily recognized.
Also, I don’t think you have to be IN the military to work for the DoD, not even in combat positions. Didn’t Dabbler intro herself as a consultant?
No, you don’t have to be military–they do hire a number of civilian contractors. Additionally, the NSA and DARPA (National Security Agency and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), amongst other agencies, are part of the USDoD, and they hire civilians.
The rebreathers used in coal mines for emergency rescue make oxygen by slowly burning a perchlorate mixture in an inefficient manner that results in excess oxygen being produced. This negates the whole issue of storage tanks light enough to carry, which would require regular inspections and so forth.
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Coal-Mining-Rebreathers-Portable-Oxygen-Rebreather_1663887138.html
Note that these are for use in an absolutely poisonous atmosphere that cannot be safely taken in. A redesign for Sydney would be much simpler and smaller as presumably the air in the shield would not be filled with methane, carbon monoxide and poisonous dusts.
LOL, Ok, bad choice there as that one actually uses a small carbon fiber cylinder air tank. Still, the idea is the same, add just enough oxygen to the air and scrub out the CO2 with soda ash or similar. Anyhow, betcha didn’t know some aircraft carry explosives above the seats!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_oxygen_generator
All you have to do is have a constant filtration unit that chemically reacts with CO2, I suppose. An air tank would mean positive pressure, with no-where for the rest of it to go.
“The Archon QM gets a lot of oddball requisitions.”
So if steel-toed stiletto-heeled boots aren’t already issued, they could still supply them with little delay.
Just coming back to this comic strip to point out a niggle.
The Quartermaster would not in the slightest be concerned about who was getting an air tank issued. It’s a bit high level for them.